How do journalists feel about being turned from reporters into PR people?

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

Don't they have some feelings of pride and protectiveness for their profession? Do they graduate from the Columbia School of journalism all bright eyed and bushy tailed and find out immediately they have to go in the tank for their corporate employers?

There's a lot of really great and riveting reporting that has not been delivered to Joe and Mary Shit on RR9:

The purchase, part and parcel of your Congress
9/11 and its portents and ignoral of such
How you got royally screwed on your Medicare drug benefit
Why your touchscreen didn't record your vote
Why Katrina went under and no one lifted a finger
Why you, Joe and Mary Shit don't matter

Does everyone in journalism class just want to be a news bunny or a Ron Burgundy? Is there no more fire in the belly? No more Edward R Morrows or Dan Rathers? Do they all get seduced and buy into the "integrity is for paupers" theorem?

[tularetom]

1. They get paid handsomely to whore themselves out

"Integrity is for paupers" pretty much says it all for a lot of them.

[baldguy]

2. People don't get to the top of their profession by feeling bad about what they do.

The evening anchor, the White House correspondent, senior reporters - all have been compromised.